About the author

Jimmy Badavino was born in June of 1972 in Troy, N. Y. He attended Green Mountain College in Vermont. After finishing The Fall of South Bridge, he began working on his second novel, titled "TheGrocery List", whith a release date to be announced. Jimmy recently released an original screenplay titled, Making Soda Bread-The Legend of "Ace" Keating, and is also writing a screenplay version of his South Bridge novel, as well as many more children's stories and screeplays that are in pre-production.

He, his wife Christie, and their three children reside in upstate NewYork.

About the Graphic Designer/Illustrator

Christie Colangione-B was born in September of 1970 in Troy, N. Y. She is a graduate of the Junior College of Albany and the College of St. Rose, with an AAS and BS in Graphic Design. Christie is a graphic designer and focuses her artistic creativity on illustrations for the couple's children's books as well as the covers, designs, and illustrations for Jimmy's novels and screenplays.

She is the art director, designer, illustrator, and is in charge of production in the family's Badavino Creative Studio.